December monthly blogger – Kathryn Heyman!

Many thanks to the inimitable Walter Mason, for his exciting live blogging and though-provoking posts.

This month, we have Kathryn Heyman blogging for us. Her bio is below:

Kathryn Heyman is the author of five novels, the latest of which is Floodline(Allen and Unwin.) She has won numerous awards including an Arts Council of England Writers Award, the Wingate and the Southern Arts Awards, and been nominated for the Orange Prize, the Scottish Writer of the Year Award, the Edinburgh Fringe Critics’ Awards, the Kibble Prize, and the West Australian Premier’s Book Awards. She’s written several radio plays for BBC Radio including adaptations of her own work and was recently elected to the Folio Prize Academy. Kathryn is the fiction program director for Faber Academy and the director of the Australian Writers Mentoring Program.